Timeline for Move branch pointer to different commit without checkout
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| Jun 16, 2017 at 3:01 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @mbdevpl: thanks, I added a warning to the answer about this drawback. Feel free to make an edit yourself if you see room for improvement. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 2:55 | history | edited | Peter Cordes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
warn about losing tracking-branch info
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| Jun 15, 2017 at 10:56 | comment | added | mbdevpl |
@PeterCordes As a side note, git sometimes sets tracking branch automatically. E.g. when you do git checkout devel but only origin/devel exists, git will automatically create and checkout devel, while also setting its tracking branch accordingly.
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| Jun 15, 2017 at 10:53 | comment | added | mbdevpl |
@PeterCordes Ineed, when branch names don't match it matters. Also when there is more than one remote. Also when you're using git prompt to display branch status, it'll show commit distance to your tracking branch (if it's set). Also, git status output is affected. Additionally, in some cases git fetch and git push won't work without specifying remote explicitly if you don't set the tracking branch. I don't know about all the cases, but for me the general rule of thumb is that for convenience and speed of work, it's better to have tracking branches in order.
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 16:50 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @mbdevpl: does that mostly only matter when your local branch has a different name from the remote branch it's tracking? | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 16:41 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @mbdevpl: I'm not really a git expert. I think I understand what you mean, but not the implications. I've used this fairly often, and still been able to push those branches to branches of the same name on a remote. What does the association between a branch and its remote-tracking branch do for you? | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 8:23 | comment | added | mbdevpl | This way, however, the tracking branch information is lost. | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 3:41 | history | edited | Peter Cordes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2016 at 19:58 | comment | added | Michael Cole | So easy! I may have just converted from gitg to gitk. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 23:15 | history | edited | Peter Cordes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2015 at 8:44 | history | answered | Peter Cordes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |